Post by Manda on Jun 23, 2010 16:16:15 GMT -5
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A P R I L, 1 9 3 8 : V I E N N A, A U S T R I A
The city is still reeling from the drastic changes that started
only a month before when the Austrian Anschluss made the
country one with its neighboring country of Germany under
the rule of Adolf Hitler. For some the flowers of spring seem
even more vibrant than ever before and the city is alright
with the hope of a new and liberating regime. Nazi flags still
line the streets through which the invading wehrmacht marched
amid crowds of jubilant civilians, welcoming them as saviors
with smiles and cheers. The steady flow of incoming German
soldiers are still feeling the love, especially from many of the
lovely single women of Vienna as their Austrian counterparts
deal optimistically with the struggle of integrating into the
German wehrmacht. It’s still an adjustment for everyone
involved. However, for these hopeful citizens, life is good.
For others, however, a dark shadow has enveloped the city that
they call home as the hand of oppression, that of the very
saviors that their fellow citizens have welcomed with open arms,
presses down upon them. In just one, short month, it has torn
apart the lives that it has taken them generations to build. There
are mass arrests of all those who are suspected of opposing the
views of the Third Reich, and the thousands of Jews in the city
suddenly find themselves stripped of their citizenship, publicly
humiliated and banned from many businesses while their own
are broken into and vandalized. People scramble in droves to
escape the country before things get any worse while others go
underground and resist this sanctioned invasion in any way
that they can.
In this chaotic new world of contradictions and quickly diverging
realities, on which side will you fall?